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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1892

SECULAR.

—A sharp earthquake shock was felt in this city on the morning of the 12th inst. No damage reported.

—A strike among the cotton operatives at Manchester, England, has thrown 4,000 workers out of employment.

—Two members of the city council of Toledo, Ohio, have been convicted and two have pleaded guilty on charges of soliciting bribes for official favors.

—Two brothers named Leimer, one in Danbury, Conn., and one in Newark, N. J., dropped dead with heart disease about the same hour on the evening of the 3d inst.

—Baltimore is to have a system of free public night schools, intended solely to educate foreigners in English, and thus to pave the way for their rapid amalgamation.

—Germany's great internal trouble just now is the pending new army bill, with its increased burden of taxes. Belgium's trouble is a clamor for universal suffrage. Portugal is threatened with revolution. France's victory in Dahomey leaves an elephant on her hands, with the probability of trouble with Germany and England. There is also much unrest in Hungary, while Italy is about bankrupt.

—Thirty Belgian glass blowers en route to Pittsburg, Pa., under contract to take the places of striking workmen, were intercepted at New York, last week, and returned to their place of embarkation.

—Advices from Chile indicate that another war is imminent between that government and her old antagonist, Peru. If it should come to blows, however, Argentine will become an ally of Peru.

—The county almshouse, near Franklin, Pa., was burned on the 10th inst. The invalid inmates were rescued with difficulty, and suffered much from exposure to the cold, as the ground was covered with snow.

—There are 24 Chinamen at the county jail under sentence of deportation for trying to evade the Chinese Exclusion Act. They will soon be taken to San Francisco and placed on board the steamer for China.

—Governor Thomas, of Utah Territory, thinks that between the Mormons and anti-Mormons there is not that sympathy and harmony which are essential to the prosperity of a people under conditions of Statehood.

—The harvest in Southern Bessaralia, a Russian province bordering the Black Sea, has proved a complete failure. The inhabitants are without grain and the cattle are without fodder. Much suffering is certain to result.

—A cyclone 100 yards wide and 1 mile long swept over an island 7 miles from Galveston, Texas, on the 6th inst., leveling everything before it. A number of houses were demolished. One person was killed and 18 injured.

—The ex-chief, Geronimo, who, with other subjugated Apache Indians, is living near Mobile, Alabama, has been made a gardener at the military station where he is a captive, and is also a justice of the peace for the tribe.

—At Highland Center, Iowa, on the 9th inst., a collision occurred on the St. Paul Railroad. A caboose, in which several passengers were riding, took fire, and four persons were burned to death in the wreck and two others severely injured.

—A Camden, Maine, dispatch of the 11th inst. says: "All the drug stores, boot and shoe stores, millinery and dry goods stores, jewelry shops and furniture stores in the town have been wiped out by fires. Twenty-five families are homeless."

—The great sensation at a recent Catholic Church fair in Cincinnati was the presence of Pugilist Corbett. He was received by a company of Knights of St. Michael, who had waited for him till 11:30 o'clock P. M., and escorted to the audience room. An immense crowd was on hand.

—At one precinct in Anderson County, S. C., in a political row on election day, three men were killed and three wounded. At Hempstead, Texas, two men were killed. At Big Rock Creek, Mitchell County, N. C., over fourteen men were wounded with knives, six of them fatally.

—The forty-inch glass that was cast for the Los Angeles observatory has been purchased for the Yerkes telescope to be connected with the Chicago University. This purchase puts the work considerably ahead, and it is now thought the entire instrument will be completed in 18 months, and perhaps in less time.

—A curiously-shaped bomb was noticed near the entrance to the Carmaux Mining Company's office in Paris, on the morning of the 8th inst. It was carried to a police station, and as it was being examined, suddenly exploded, killing four men and mortally wounding the police inspector. The building was also badly wrecked.

—Just at this time, when the United States is embarrassed by the necessity of keeping Chinese laborers out of the country, the Brazilian Government has passed a bill for the encouragement of Chinese immigration. The Brazilian Minister says this will induce considerable Chinese immigration to that country.

—At the hour of morning mass at Holy Trinity Church, Milwaukee, Wis., on the 6th inst., the janitor of the building was discovered hanging just beneath the cross in the spire, 150 feet above the ground. He had been threatened with dismissal on account of drunkenness, and decided to end his life in this novel fashion.

—Kansas has elected a People's Party governor who is opposed to prohibition, and he says that hereafter the enforcement of the Prohibition law must depend upon local officers, as the State's power will not be used. On the strength of this declaration, it is said that saloons are rapidly springing up in all the principal cities and towns.

—The lone leper, who has for some time been isolated in a cabin a short distance from the county infirmary about ten miles from this city, committed suicide on the 10th inst. His name was Samuel Dutcher; he was a native of New York State and a soldier during the civil war, after which he spent several years in South America, where it is supposed he contracted the disease. He preferred death to isolation from the world.

—Another disturbance occurred at Homestead, Pa., on the 13th inst. a dispute arose between some colored non-union employees at the Carnegie works and white strikers; a fight ensued, a crowd gathered, and a number of pistol shots were fired. Three strikers and a boy were wounded by the shots, and three negroes were badly beaten.

—The result of the late election is to give the Federal Government into the hands of the Democratic Party. With comparatively few exceptions, the masses outside of those who hold political positions will not realize any difference. Those who acknowledge that their citizenship is in heaven have nothing either to rejoice or to grieve over.

—The great strike in New Orleans, which for a week or more stagnated every branch of business and threatened anarchy, was short lived. The governor's manifest determination to protect the city with the entire power of the State was too much for the strikers, and they have given up the contest. They are now eagerly seeking their old jobs.

—General Miles, having completed his annual inspection of Indian reservations, reports satisfaction everywhere excepting among the Cheyennes and Arapahoes. The latter tribe he expects will go on the war path unless the government takes steps immediately to relieve them from threatened starvation. Since their reservation has been opened to settlement their ignorance of agriculture, combined with the poor character of the soil and with the disinclination of the Indian to work, has resulted in bringing them to a condition verging upon starvation.

—The territorial Supreme Court of Utah has reversed the ruling of the master in chancery on the escheated personal property of the Mormon Church, amounting to $750,000. The master had ruled that this should go to the public schools, but the court overrules his decision, and awards it to the benevolent and charitable uses of the church, appointing trustees with heavy securities to carry out the decree. United States Attorney Varian gives notice of appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court.